I wasn’t arguing. I said that 9/11 caused an impact in the sports world, one that elicited cancellations of events and prompted statements from athletes, teams, commissioners, ownership. That is what sports radio hosts used as a jumping off point to talk about it. It doesn’t have to be “most of the conversation”; just…

Look at you, bringing real life to a dumbfight.

7-11? Someone fannnnncy.

You think Trump saying racist shit has the same impact and significance as 9/11?

OG Maritime.

Conveniently leaving out the part where you were caught embezzling from the annual retreat budget to fuel your K-pop addiction.

Eh, the only people who really “took offense” to this are MAGAs, who are only doing it to be “I guess anything can be offensive WHAT ABOUT THE 1ST AMENDMENT” trolls.. I can only speak for myself, but I’m a black man who writes for a living and I’m completely unfazed by the wordplay.

Where is this so-called” white privilege,” I ask you, where?

And/or what MLB does and make free agency begin the day after the end of the Finals.

The Skins could’ve cut Foster weeks ago and give him time to try and catch on with another team, but they waited until the day before training camp started in Richmond.

You’re stupid because of the way you process information, not because of how you prefer your pizza sliced.

Frankly I’m surprised you can read at all.

You’re not following.

But I’m not, so your proposition is the equivalent of dividing by zero.

I thank my lucky stars that I have not grown up to be the kind of person who cares whether my pizza is cut into squares or wedges.

someone who would do good (Corbyn) but the media repeatedly calls him anti-semitic and the rubes eat it up.

Sorry, so-called “progressive,” but you just upset the hivemind and are no longer One Of Us™.

Deadspin: We Don’t Like the Right Thing Unless We Say It’s the Right Thing

Counter-counterpoint: 9/11 caused an actual, direct impact in the sports world.

It’s not about business strategy. It’s about a thin veneer of plausible deniability when/if shit hits the fan. It’s pure ego, plus the fact that it’s easier to have one mouthpiece of the consensus judgment/vision of ownership than to have all 32 owners be answerable for all league activity.